Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia
<p>In 2024, Sam Bankman-Fried — once hailed as the future of finance and one of the richest men in America — was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing $11 billion and collapsing over a hundred companies. <em>Stealing the Future</em> is the inside story of that unraveling, told by a member of the CoinDesk team that first broke the case. But beyond the true crime story, this is a journey into the tangled web of tech-utopianism, libertarian idealism, and the seductive ideologies of Silicon Valley — from Effective Altruism to transhumanism — that helped cloak one of the biggest financial frauds of the 21st century. Since these philosophies increasingly fuel the global far right, <em>Stealing the Future</em> asks: what happens when abstract theories gain real power — and who’s really paying the price?</p>
Authors: David Z. Morris
ISBN: 9781917516099